Posts Tagged ‘Gold is Money’

It appears that gold and silver prices will continue to be kept low. Our take on the precious metals charts strongly suggests that gold and silver may work higher, over time, but it will be labored and not without intense effort to overcome the unlimited ability of the Federal Reserve [controlled entirely by the elites] to create an infinite supply of debt that poses as “money.”

The experience of losing money is common in investing. But where is the certitude of loss even before your check clears? That’s the situation with sovereign debt right now. Gold is money and money is sterile. It does not pay dividends or earn income. I don’t suggest that it is the only thing that people should have their money in. But to me, gold is a very timely way to invest in monetary disorder.

On the face of it, it may seem a bit odd. Gold is the traditional store of value. But for long-term investors, it’s important to understand that silver prices have an 84% correlation to gold prices over time. One big thing silver has going for it moving forward is it has growing industrial uses that gold doesn’t have. It could well be the key strategic metal for the 21st century.

Gold and silver is first and foremost money. It has been chosen as money for a lot of reasons and those reasons are still in existence today. We now have, really a competition going around the world to devalue fiat money. You should have gold and silver as a part of your asset allocation because when everything else falls apart, gold and silver typically do very well.

China and Russia are acquiring thousands of tons of gold. The Chinese have a huge pile of U.S. Treasury Securities of about $3.2 trillion. They can’t dump the treasuries, but they are worried about inflation destroying the value of the treasuries. So what the Chinese are doing instead is, they’re acquiring gold as a hedge. Where they lose on paper, they make it up on gold.

We’ve noticed there are quite a few myths and misconceptions about gold out there. Probably the biggest misconception investors have about gold is that it’s an investment. People check the price quote every day to see how their “investment” in gold is performing. The sooner investors realize that gold is money & not a conventional investment, the better off they’ll be. Here’s why.

Right now, China’s reserves are about $3.2 trillion, of which about $2 trillion is denominated in US dollars, and most of that are U.S. Treasury Securities. They can’t dump them. So what the Chinese are doing instead is they’re acquiring gold as a hedge. China is going to be in this position where they lose on the paper, but they make it up on the gold.

India has never experienced a bear market of any consequence in gold. Since 1970 the Indian rupee has lost 88.7% of its purchasing power compared to the U.S. dollar. But the people’s purchasing power has been maintained thanks to gold. Maybe that is why people are reluctant to give up gold for a piece of government paper. Westerners may have something to learn from India’s love affair with gold.

We’re now getting into negative interest rates on bank accounts / deposits. These are breaking out around the world & Yellen has talked about the possibility of having them in the US. If gold has zero yield & bank deposits have a negative yield, gold is the high yield asset, zero is greater than negative 40 basis points. So gold is the high yield asset; zero is more than negative.

At times, gold behaves like a commodity. The gold price tracks the ups and downs of commodity indices. Sometimes, gold is viewed as a safe haven investment & competes with stocks and bonds for investor attention. On occasion, gold assumes its role as the most stable long-term form of money the world has ever known. Like a chameleon, gold also changes its nature depending on the background.

No doubt the principal focus will always be on gold as the ultimate metallic money, but the temptation to overlook silver’s monetary credentials is a mistake. Arguably, it could even have a greater claim than gold to be the people’s money, because for all of commercial history it has been more widely circulating for that mundane purpose.

Our current monetary system is the root cause of many evils of today. Without a monetary system that creates currency out of thin air, most of the wars that we have had and still have would simply not be financeable. By holding your wealth in gold and silver you are rejecting the current system and also protecting yourself from “financial tyranny”.

“China increased its gold reserves 57%,” reports Bloomberg this morning. While tapping this reckoning out, Jim called from the road. “China is feigning transparency with a ‘don’t rock the gold boat’ strategy,” he said in reaction to today’s announcement. “It’s a misrepresentation of the facts. They absolutely have more gold than they’re reporting.

There is an incredible lack of understanding of the function of gold, its importance as a diversification & a safe haven asset. They have no knowledge of the role gold plays in macro-economics, geopolitics, monetarily & also that gold has protected people throughout history from financial & economic crashes & currency devaluations.

Gold is actually going to rise faster than it fell. Normally markets take the stairs up and the elevator down. I think that gold is going to take a rocket ship back up. All the gold dumped out of ETFs is sitting in vaults in Russia and China & will never see the light of day again. So when the buyers want it back, the gold is not going to be there.

Sun Zhaoxue: Currently, there are more and more people recognizing that the ‘gold is useless’ story contains too many lies. Gold now suffers from a ‘smokescreen’ designed by the US, which stores 74% of global official gold reserves, to put down other currencies and maintain the US Dollar hegemony.

Decline in gold production in Australia has been blamed on royalties & falling price in recent years. Possibly Australia may have reached “peak gold.” China & Russia are the only 2 large producers to have seen significant gold production increases as sizable ore deposits that were left untapped during the Communist eras are mined today.

Is there manipulation in the gold and silver markets? Why is this important? These two markets are by far & away the two most important markets to world finance. Even if Americans have been brainwashed into thinking that they are not important, foreigners disagree & the reality is that gold is money as is silver by its “blood kin” relation.

Gold became Iran’s lifeline when the U.S. had inflicted a currency collapse, hyperinflation, a bank run and had caused a scarcity of food, gasoline and consumer goods, through the expedient of cutting Iran out of the global payments system. And so U.S. began stepping up enforcement of a ban on gold sales to Iran.